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Cheers for the offer I might take you up on that at some point. Did you order a box from Tom Barr (Plantbrain)? I got this from Eboeagles and Tom. I also have some rooty burl bits to make plec caves. Andy

:lol: :D Andy

Thanks that is interesting to know. I have now tried twice to grow moss and failed both times. Maybe Java would be an option to try in the future. Andy

Been a while since I put up an update. The tank is pretty much the same apart from the addition of some red root floaters from Big Tom. Current view of the tank from my sofa A couple of fish pics Really like these yellow tail congo's and they are now colouring up lovely It is almost...

Since you took the big rock down this tank is now much more to my personal taste and you have softened it very nicely with the stems and moss. Can't wait to see what you do with the right hand side, I am waiting with anticipation. Andy

Re: Transparent Tank - puffers Well done with cutting the beak. I am not sure I would have skill or nerve to do that. I have enough trouble with trimming the Guinea pigs claws. Andy

Re: Ollie's 120x45x45: New Pics Strong orange on those. Beautiful fish. I might be jelous if I didn't have a tank full of them already :wink: How big are they? Andy

Re: Rob's 300L (to be named)(week 1 photos) Hi Rob, L134's are beautiful (I have 5) but there are a few issues you may face. Firstly they are now very expensive to buy the Maidenhead stores near me now want £75 for a small juvenile so you would need to source them carefully. Secondly mine...

Re: Rob's 300L (to be named) Exciting times indeed and as people have already said great wood placement. Bet you can't wait to get planting and filling! Andy

Re: Ryuoh lagoon - (Semi-Planted) Really like the layout you have created. Just to be different I am not watching the mini hairgrass :lol: Really like the contrast between the sand, the amazonia and the rocks. The planting enhances this brilliantly. Andy

Re: Rob's 300L (to be named) Nice piece of Manzi. I have a few from Eboeagles for my rescape too. I hopefully have a box winging its way from the USA too! Getting itchy feet and this journal isn't helping all that much! Andy

Yep I have some of the wood from the same seller that you got yours for your new project, plus I have more on the way! can't wait!

Quick update on this. The tank is still the same for now with a good amount of growth on the Apongeton, but I am collecting some bits for a major re-scape. More details to be released soon. I have taken a couple of short videos that I hope to get time to attempt to edit and upload if my...

Crypt-tastic! Absolutely brilliant. Andy

Re: Discovery Channel I bet you can't wait to get plants and livestock in. Andy

Re: Rob's 300L (to be named) I have also bought some nice manzy from Eboeagles and it aarrived today. I am collecting bits for a re-scape. Really like your other tank so can't wait for this one to get going. I personally prefer scapes with wood so if the plants look as good as your other one...

Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. Barb Island Those checkers look great, I have not seen ones with colour like that for a long time. A nice touch and something a bit different. Andy

Re: Floresta na Palma da mao. - Forest in the palm of your h The scale of this scape is either amazing or you have a really big hand! :shock: Andy

Re: Trigon 190 'Crypt Corner' That is one sweet looking tank. The attention to detail on the lids and cabinets is amazing. Andy

That little 7l looks fab. Is it tricky to work in with the top smaller than the bottom footprint. Andy

Re: James3200s New Altum... :) Tank L200's and Altums you may be creating my favorite fish list ever! I unfortunately lost my L200 and didn't get another one as I have an L128, 5 x L134's and 2 x L270's already. Love the style can't wait till you get some of these fish in there. Pics are a...

Re: The forgotten nano Not literally though. maybe I should say fantastic?! :roll: Andy

Some beautiful crypts in that tank and they look great with the hardscape. Andy

Re: The forgotten nano Cracking little tank. Andy

If you add directly to the new water in buckets or containers then you can dose the exact amount for each volume so you would have been correct. If you dose and fill direct to the tank then you need to dose the full tank volume. This way you use more conditioner but you are covered for the...

I am low tech and I have been using crypt parva as a kind of carpet. Its a lovely little crypt and I am crypto-holic. You will see it in some of my terrible journal pics. I believe AE and tropica have pics on their websites too. It spreads via little white root runners under my sand...

Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. new plan..?? What about glass bloodfins? Not too large, shoal quite well and have a nice flash of red on the tail? Subtle due to the clear body which would make the tail pop against the green plants. Or red phantoms, or black ruby barbs? Andy

Did you fill the tank and add the aquasafe directly to it? If so you need to add enough of a dose for the whole tank volume not just the water you added back due to dilution. I thought I would check as yu said you were new to the hobby. If you added enough to treat the whle tank please ignore...

What a great video and a nice looking tank. The plant you were not sure of the name down the front left looks a bit like and Echinodorus Ozelot green to me. They have a slightly mottled leaf. Have a look on the tropica site as they have good pics of the plants. Your wendtii green at the...

What a great video and a nice looking tank. The plant you were not sure of the name down the front left looks a bit like and Echinodorus Ozelot green to me. They have a slightly mottled leaf. Have a look on the tropica site as they have good pics of the plants. Your wendtii green at the...

What about some nice hair grass? Tank is coming along lovely. Andy

What sort of plecs are you considering? I have a bit of an obsession with them and have no more room so I need to see what others are doing with them now :lol: Andy

Re: Ollie's 120x45x45: New Pics I have found that the colours are a bit more vibrant when some ladies are around. might be worth considering a few at a later date if you have room. My females have now gone a nice green colour now they are mature and are quite nice in a subtle way. My biggest...

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Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. update. yes mate, hands off :lol: 10 are mine, little smaller than i would have liked but beggars cant be choosers. Ive been trying to haggle a deal on the licorice for weeks now as he only has 4 that have been there months in need of a good home, but he wont budge...

Re: Ollie's 120x45x45: New Pics My Bullosa have lost a lot of their leaf texture as they have matured and yours look quite similar to the ones I have and the ones I bought at the weekend. I have just bought some Petchii and the leaves are green and pointed. I have a feeling these will change...

Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. update. Have you picked these up yet Iain? Are you getting them from MA Cambridge? I noticed at the weekend they had some in and they were looking lovely. They also had some nice Licorice and Sparkling gourami in as well. Andy

liking your congo tetras Thanks for the compliment. I am loving the start of your new set up. When you eventually get your Altum's I will be green with envy! Andy

Re: Ollie's 120x45x45: New Pics What are the crypt's Ollie? Are they Bullosa at the top and Petchii lower down by the path? Crypt's look great BTW. Andy

Re: Polyester's 180 L Rio Journal Nice plan and execution Polyester. Tank is a great start. I know you said you love Congo's but with their size and activity this tank will not be long enough in my opinion. One to watch. Andy

So after my 2nd visit to one of my LFS this weekend I returned with another 2x crypt diversen, 2 x crypt bullosa, 2 x crypt Legroi, and 1 x good size pot of crypt petchi that I split into two to carry out my rescape ideas. I moved out from the back my Crypt wendtii tropica and my crypt undulata...

Thanks easer those were from Scotsdales. Get somethingfishy to have a look at the yellow tail congo's at Maidenhead Cambridge. They aren't as deep bodied but when mature get a nice blue flash and a lovely yellow tail. They are a little more subtle. Thanks Ian I got this pic as the wife...

Thanks Polyester. How big is your new tank have you got a journal up yet? Congo's need a lot of space they are really active and the males love to spar with each other. Congo's often get over looked in LFS stock tanks as they are young and don't have much colour or the long fin and tail...

I have added 2 cryptocoryne diversen today in front of the filter inlet. I have also decided to move a couple of Anubias and replace them with some crypts to help the area in front of the wood flow better. Pic below shows the Anubias and they are attached to a piece of slate. Livestock...

Re: James3200s New Altum... :) Tank +1 to the above. Where are you sourcing your fish? Andy

I personally have a fairly deep sand bed and find stagnation not to be a problem. I get no build up of gas to speak of. As long as you poke the sand to check for gas build up during maintenance then you will not get an issue. The plant roots will help move things around as do my plecs. I...

Such ferocity in the strike, amazing. Andy

Re: Fluval Studio 900...'Dragons Crypt', nearly a week on! Great video Ady. Very helpful explanation for photography basics thanks Antipofish. Andy

Re: Ed's Re-Scape 240l - "Reach" - First Journal Really like the wood. Are you adding any stems/ height at the back or behind the wood? Andy

Thanks mate, they are great tanks but your puddle is a whole different look with the shallow depth and different details. I should get a new full tank shot showing the Apongeton growth I can't wait till it fills out properly. I bought a new camera on Friday that should arrive tomorrow so I...

Re: Ollie's 120x45x45: New Pics Congo's are big impressive fish and I love mine. Select them carefully as some colour up better than others. I personally always chose fish that have a strong orange colouration just above the lateral line as these develop better overall colour. Andy

The place is Ornamental fish farm, Tut Hill, Fornham All Saints. Fornham is on the outskirts of Bury st Edmunds. Plecs seem to come and go so you could phone ahead but we just went over to take a browse and came home with that little stunner. It has grown in confidence again and now ventures...

That is looking great now. Will look really good if the moss really takes. I am starting to wonder if the moss doesn't like my hotter plec temperatures. Most journals I have read on here with great moss are non heated tanks. I better go off and read the growing mosses sticky! Andy

When we went over Bury they had 2 x Green phantoms (L200), 1 x mega clown plec a golden pekoltia which was a lovely looking fish and what the wife and I believed to be the C. Zebra. The reason I say that is because it wasn't listed and the owner sold it to me for £20 so I was stoaked. I...

Quick update on the tank at present it is going fine. A few spots of GSA on some anubias and at the moment the Lilaposis is a little pale in places so we will see if this is just transition. The moss from Basil hasn't done much yet so fingers crossed it starts growing. The two apongeton I...

Re: Happy tank .. Thanks for the shrimp offer. I am not sure what I will be keeping yet and this is going to be a long term project that I will build up the equipment for. The other half just managed to get an iphone pic of the new plec to put on my journal. This one is not overly shy and...

What a cracking set up. I love the forward planning for the water changes. Andy

Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. update. I love the angled shot showing the stems at the back. Cracking photo of the choco what a lovely looking little fish. Andy

Re: Happy tank .. Awful pics Hey man how is the tank looking now? Any updates and pics? My tank is ticking along but my moss hasn't done much yet? Not quite sure why. I did get what looks like a red ramshorn snail which is doing better than the moss at the moment :lol: not sure why he...

Re: Fluval Studio 900...'Dragons Crypt', Trim time. I got advice from the LFS and treated with limited success. This was in my old 180l Juwel and not the 450l. A couple of them healed up fine but I had 2 males that just continually got them. I caught them and put them into quarantine but...

Re: Fluval Studio 900...'Dragons Crypt', Trim time. Hi Ady I would keep a close eye on the Emporer Tetra. When I kept these fish they suffered from some type of worm that formed in a blister like growth. I have since seen them in a few LFS around my area with the same problem. Yours might be...

I have 3 wild Scalare myself and have often been tempted by the leopoldi angels. I think Altums are the ultimate though so good luck. Do a search on the journal sub forum for Tony's Triassic Hollow he is a member on here that has some amazing Altums. Andy

Where are you getting your Altum's from? I can't wait to see pics of them when you get them. I do however believe George's tank was filled with a wild type of Scalare and not Altum's. Andy

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video I would expect them to join together into one shoal. May take a little while for them to settle and establish a pecking order. I added to my shoal of Congo tetra twice as I didn't want to add them all at once and they all socialise.

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video It can take a while for fish to settle so I am sure they will settle soon. Have you decided to add to the group or not? I think it was a couple of months before the C. Zebra settled and I saw her properly eat etc. She seemed to come out...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video Well out of the 4 types of plec I have kept my Chocolate zebra is the most bold of them all. She will come out during light on and feed on veg or pellets all the time. The L134's are much more difficult to spot and the blue phantom just...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video According to my book L129 max out at 10 -11cm so the larger ones will be nearly full grown. I like to buy fish a little smaller and bring them on myself. £24 seems very reasnable. I picked up my choc zebra last week for £20 but I was lucky...

It depends which ones you buy. You can get many plecs that stay very small e.g bulldog plecs get 6 - 8cm. I have 2 chocolate zebra's that get to around 10cm, 5 x Leopard frog's that get to about 12cm and 1 blue phantom that gets to about 18cm. The blue phantom was bought as a very small baby...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video I can understand your hesitation after the trouble you had with Marvin. How much do the L129's retail for? I suppose it depends what you want as I suspect a group of Otto's would do much more cleaning of algae etc and would probably be...

Keep forgetting to mention but last week I added another juvenile Chocolate Zebra to this tank. Found a real bargain while out during my hols last week. I put it in over a week ago but only spotted it yesterday for the 1st time since putting it in due to all the plants and hardscaping. My...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 7) video I just added another chocolate zebra after I found a bargain when I was off on my hols last week. It has taken me over a week before I spotted it again due to all the plants and wood hardscape!! It is also a fair bit smaller than my other...

Re: Fluval Studio 900... Disaster. Sorry to hear this news it sounds like it hit you very hard. This has re-affirmed my decision not to inject CO2. Sometimes I think about adding CO2 to get the high growth rates of others, and to have a larger selection of plants that I could be succesful...

Went to the LFS yesterday to buy some more Crypt parva to fill out the carpet. When I got home I realised I had bought something else. I believe it is Lilaeopsis brasiliensis. So I have carefully portioned it and planted it up and I guess I will see how it goes in my low tech tank. I...

Re: Aquanano40 Shrimp tank....Planted. The hardscape looked great, but now with it planted it is already an absolute beauty. I don't really do jelousy but the green eyed monster is coming out. Great job. Andy

They are cracking little fish I had some way back. They get a lovely blue / purple tinge on the upper side and that lovely bright green on the flanks. They look really nice in your scape. Andy

Re: Hare Hill - the shrimp-scape project I love the way the branch comes forward to the front left hand corner. I know what you mean about non CO2 tanks and growing and settling the plants, it is a time consuming process! Andy

Those Anubias look fantastically healthy and lush. What a lovely little tank. Andy

Water change and maintanence completed today. Took a couple of quick snaps of the recent changes. These two show the new Apongeton behind the wood. I can't wait until it grows taller and starts helping to fill out the back and give it a more jungle type feel. I also found some more...

Re: Fluval Studio 900... little video. A cracking watch. Those Crypts in the centre are lush. Andy

The Apongeton's have arrived today and have gone in behind the large piece of wood. The leaves are broader and a little shorter than the one I had previously. I will have to wait it out and see how they do. I was also very impressed with AE. Nice plants, good value and excellent service...

Re: Aquanano40 Shrimp tank.... I like the twisted look to the wood placement especially the high branch on the right hand side. I am more jelous that you have boxes of both rock and wood hardscape! :lol: Andy

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (week 5) :lol: love this post. Nothing like a little guidance for the significant others to make sure gifts are correct!! Andy

Most Angels have been so intensively bred these days that they are not always the best parents and the eggs are usually taken away to be reared seperately. If you have other fish in there that bother the parents they are more likely to eat the eggs than hatch them. Best of luck with it is...

Yeah I am hoping he will fight it off naturally. I am keeping a very close eye on him. I have to lure him out with food to look at him. He came out and ate last night which is a good sign that it isn't in his sucker mouth yet. It looked like it was slightly better so I have my fingers...

I do have some Apongeton on order with AE so I will have to take some pics when they arrive as they will help to fill out the back section. L134's are generally known as Leopard Frog plecs. L200's are Known as Green Phantoms. There are two types of fish under the Green Phantom name one is...

Cracking tank :clap: Love the Echinodorus just left of centre. Andy

Yeah the moss hasn't done much of anything yet but in my tank nothing happens quickly. I am just attempting to keep it clean at the moment. Got bigger worries at the moment one of my baby L134's has a bump on his nose that looks like an infection. I am still weighing up what to do at the...

I am now trying out Aqua Essentials for the first time after ordering 2 Apongeton Boivinianus bulbs. When these arrive I will have a bit of a move round and post a new pic. I was also going to add some more Crypt Balansae but Aqua Essentials didn't have any in stock :(

One of my all time favorite tanks. Thanks for sharing. Andy

This journal has great detail. I really like your Redmoor root pieces. I have the same problem with trying to look through the front glass while doing tank maintanence up a step ladder. Having a Juwel Vision 450l and being a short blahblahblahblah is hard work :lol: Andy

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (week 4 - RIP Marvin) I can see where you are coming from with that Sarah. I have a white wall behind my tank and like to be able to see through it. I also think a black background on a 450l Juwel would be too much. I think it really works on these smaller tanks...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (week 4 - RIP Marvin) Sorry about Marvin I know what its like to lose a very nice plec after I lost my green phantom during a tank change over. You really tried to offer variety of food and good quality water / nice environment. You sought advice and tried to sort...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (new week 3 photos) Hi Rob how can you tell he hasn't eaten any bloodworm? my plec's tend to eat the individual worms and it must be tricky for you to tell if he has eaten a few worms if they are scattered about?. I would not say you are being silly at all by...

I have put some more thought and research into this and I think the Nymphaea leaves while growing would also get munched by the Plec gang. I have a few Balansae plants at the back that I am waiting to grow higher to mix in with the Vallis. I am swaying towards the Apongeton unless anyone has...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (new week 3 photos) I didn't see my Chocolate Zebra eat for around 2 months as it was only coming out late at night / early morning when I was sleeping. This was my first plec and the first time I saw her eat still ranks as one of my favorite memories of keeping tanks...

At the front you have two areas of red/brown plants poking out behind the wood slightly left centre and behind the stone slightly right centre. Are these Crypts of some sort? maybe undulata?. I love the colour and texture of them and would love to know what they are. The tank is looking...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (new week 3 photos) Tank is looking great. Just keep offering a good range to Marvin and I am sure he will fatten up. It took me a while to condition my Blue Phantom when I got him and only recently he seems to have put on his first noticable growth spurt. It's nice...

Tank is still plodding along, sometimes I dream about injecting the "gas" to make it grow quicker! Anyway I am after some opinion. I want to get some height from behind the larger piece of wood on the left hand side of the tank. I want to add a plant to the right of the giant Vallis to appear...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank (new week 3 photos) As Darrel states it is about acclimating them and getting them used to the prepared foods. Keep offering a mix of foods and hopefully he will soon eat. My plecs also like the hikari carnivore tabs.